How to Use afterlife in a Sentence

afterlife

noun
  • Does he believe in an afterlife?
  • Given its brief existence, the life of the show has also been very much about the afterlife of the show.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Duke plays a quiet and reserved man in a desert afterlife who chooses which souls should be born on Earth.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 29 July 2021
  • Kübler-Ross once considered a belief in the afterlife a form of denial.
    Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2021
  • While Judaism posits belief in the afterlife, this world, the world of the living, is paramount.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • This afterlife comedy follows a woman who believes she's been sent to heaven in error.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The afterlife would be not much different from their earthly existence in this beautiful place in the heart of Italy.
    Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Both segments contain excerpts from the Book of the Dead, which was thought to help the deceased navigate the afterlife.
    Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • Which is all to say, the afterlife is probably the memories Jack has spread across his readership with his indelible lines.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • In New Zealand, the spirits of the dead leap off the headland at Cape Reinga on their journey to the afterlife.
    Washington Post, 30 July 2021
  • According to Hmong tradition, when a person dies, their soul must return to their birthplace, then travel on to meet their ancestors in the afterlife.
    Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 29 July 2021
  • As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and guide them across mystical seas to finally release them into the afterlife.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • The supernatural drama was born on Paramount+ and is enjoying a healthy afterlife on Netflix, with a second season in the works.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2024
  • These kinds of grave goods were buried with the dead in the hopes that they could be used in the afterlife.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • King Tut was buried with a passel of the seeds, to spice up the afterlife.
    Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2021
  • He’s trapped not just in the afterlife but in the non-stop theatre of his own mind.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Leave it to David Bowie to make his presence known in the afterlife.
    Fred Sahai, Billboard, 3 May 2022
  • Beer was even a part of the afterlife, or at least Egyptians hoped so.
    Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Those experts are the cast of CBS' Ghosts, who have some knowledge of what goes on in the afterlife.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • This gives them all hope that death isn’t the end, and that The Midnight Club will continue even in the afterlife.
    Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Dave Itzkoff on the strange afterlife of George Carlin.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
  • In the Islamic faith, the 40th day after a death marks the deceased’s soul passing from the earth to the afterlife.
    Sara Mhaidli, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2022
  • But that's starting to change, from video games about the afterlife to TV shows that help prepare you to pass.
    Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2022
  • This is what businesses like Shein hope for us: the afterlife is a store.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 July 2022
  • The animals may have been buried to recreate the gardens for the deceased in the afterlife.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • What’s a wedding night in the afterlife without a few frights?
    Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2024
  • As the series progressed, Doug took on an afterlife of his own.
    Jessica Derschowitz, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The book tells the story of the titular Mal, who navigates between the world of the living and the afterlife.
    Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
  • After you get done telling ghost stories, lighten up the mood with this jam about the afterlife.
    Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The body was seen as too sacred, and necessary to preserve for the afterlife.
    Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023

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